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Pretty cool Patrick!  Now, knowing the military has a telescope system that could have inspected the Shuttle tiles for damage before re-entry I wonder how big a telescope amatuers would have to have to resolve detail on satellites in orbit without adaptive optics?  Is it something we could do or is it just beyond us?  I will have to get out an almanac and look at the Dawes Limit formula.